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 [opendemocracy -] Multicultural citizenship and the anti-sharia storm, Tariq Modood: His books include (as co-editor) Ethnicity, Nationalism and Minority Rights and Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy: Comparing the US and UK (both Cambridge University Press, 2004), Multiculturalism,Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach (Routledge 2005), and (as sole author) Multicultural Politics: Racism,Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). His latest book is Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (Polity, 2007)

 [Homo economicus' Weblog] To Be A Citizen - To Be An Englishman: With regards the English language test, it would be interesting to see how many indigenous people would pass the test. In particular imagine that someone that barely managed a pass at English GCSE would go on to fail the language test, but was born in this country and had citizenship at birth. Presumably we shall cast such a person out, in the manner of a Spartan of old to strengthen the nation.

 [CARIBWORLDNEWS] Caribbean News: In a speech, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he expects even tougher tests for citizenship in the future, with a clear set of responsibilities set out at each stage of the immigration process. He described the proposed three-stage immigration system as: entry as a temporary resident, time as a probationary citizen and full citizenship.

 [cecileguedon's Weblog] Disciplinary citizenship versus cultural citizenship: Radical pluralism rejected the somewhat conservative premises of the liberal communitarian controversy, and advocated a more transformative view of citizenship that was also more deeply embedded in ideas of radical democracy. Allied to democracy, new ideas of democratic governance beyond the nation-state, such as global civil society, and related conceptions of cosmopolitanism, brought additional dimensions onto the citizenship agenda, which has now become a major area of social research (Isin and Turner 2002).

[24 Plus News] Prime Minister Gordon Brown - Managed Migration and Earned Citizenship: and for those who want to stay, Britain wants to help them on a path to integration and citizenship. That is what today’s proposals are designed to achieve: to ensure that as with other aspects of globalisation, Britain is best-placed - has the clarity of purpose, the right rules and systems, and the right investment - to harness the economic opportunities of globalisation while managing the challenges and protecting against the risks.

[Pickled Politics] Tories propose criminalising forced marriages: Nor do I see how having to know a bit of English will reduce the chances of forced marriage (though it will probably help foreigners into the UK). The registration idea is probably the best, as it allows potential victims to alert the authorities, or at least gives them more of an opportunity.

 [Brits Americans] More British Citizenship Tests Planned - BBC News: Six months to assemble the paperwork, over $1000 in fees to the embassy, and a waiting period of 3 years from arrival before I can go for citizenship, which tests me on the history of the USA - please explain how this is different to what is being proposed in this green paper?

[Ultimate wordpress resources for your blog.] Blog Gallery - Performance of Social Media Sites: British Citizenship I previously mentioned that got a letter confirming it all went well with my application for naturalisation, the whole process is now more or less done. I had the ceremony last Thursday and around 11:24 in the .

 [Publius2012's Weblog] Thesis Bibliography: Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules from FDR’s Atlantic Charter to George W. Bush’s Illegal War.

[The blog of Dave Cole] In defence of the Archbishop of Canterbury: in modern times, the clearest articulation of this was in the foundation of the Pakistani state under Jinnah; but other examples (Morocco, Jordan) could be cited of societies where there is a concept of citizenship that is not identical with belonging to the umma

 [The New Wave's Weblog] New Wave No:3, HTML.: United States which is highly sensitive about the developments in South Asia due the growing influence of CPN (Maoist) and the Maoist movement in general throughout this region quickly doled out a carrot of immigration to US and some European countries, to the refugees in an attempt to diffuse the possible revolutionary outburst. The hypocrisy of this humanitarianism is evident from the fact that it is done at a time when draconian measures are being taken to stop immigrant workers from entering US and demands for more H1 visas are being resisted.

 [Britology Watch: Deconstructing 'British Values'] What are ”˜English values’?: But these values are fundamentally antithetical to the duties and rights expressed in Muslim belief and practice - as, indeed, to the duties and purpose of life as understood by any of the major religious traditions. The language of Britishness cannot reach out beyond itself to understand and embrace radical difference of this kind, and can only reject the pious and dogmatic fidelities of Islam as backward, oppressive and irrational - and as limiting the possibilities for Muslim communities to integrate and participate in the supposed benefits of British life.

 [Jonathansaad's Weblog] draft-social studies, POV,Teachers peers: The government of Australia has invited admissions for the amendment of the preamble to the constitution to include indigenous Australians. The reason we believe to change this is because the preamble that is in the referendum does not or barley involves the indigenous Australians that were here thousands of years before the British or Europeans came to Australia and hold the history of Australia.

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